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Argentina -
Distribution of homeless and street males and females in the City of Buenos
Aires

Bangladesh - Yusef, 14, and Smaile, 10, live by themselves on the streets on Dhaka,
Bangladesh. They make a living by collecting plastic bottles and filling them
with fresh water.[photo: Bangladesh/2008/McCarthy]

Vietnam - Carrying a bag
as big as her body, which contains shoe polish, a brush, some pieces of
cloth, and several old sandals, Tham goes through
all restaurants and cafes to ask customers if they want their shoes shined

Russia - Sergei Mayorov, at age 8, had been alone on the street in St.
Petersburg for nearly three years. He insists on smoking American Marlboro
cigarettes, which cost the equivalent of two days average Russian wages. He
steals or begs to gather money to buy them, then gives them away

Russia - Sergei: A
Loss of Freedom.He is again a
helpless little boy as shelter workers give him a bath and check for
lice.Sensing a loss of freedom,
Sergei refuses to sleep in the shelter for more than a few nights at a time

Indonesia - RAY OF LIGHT: Volunteers of SahabatAnak hold a study
session for street children under Grogol overpass
in West Jakarta on Sunday. Most of the children, who had otherwise dropped
out of school, resume their studies after joining the sessions. (JP/TifaAsrianti)]

Vietnam - Street
children in HCM City. The Labour Ministry and the
European Community’s project Helping Street Children has reunited 134
homeless youngsters from the Quang Thai Commune
with their families. — VNS Photo Truong Vi

A Roma (gypsy)
child finds herself on the side of a road in northern Italy, ironically
wearing a shirt that proclaims, "Outsider." Her family, which fled
the ethnic turmoil in Bosnia, is always on the move

Haiti - Few of
the 120 boys jailed at Fort Dimanche prison know
when or if they will be released. Some, fearing the streets, have asked not
to be freed. Some are jailed for years for minor crimes or are innocents
nabbed in neighborhood sweeps, children's advocates say [Photo: Michel Du Cille]